From IT Trainer To Child Care Worker

After 23 years with the same organisation, mostly as a corporate trainer, Steve Stokes retrained as a child care worker and is loving every minute of it.

Does Your Career Fit?

Your career affects your identity and self pride. When you’re doing work you feel connected to, work and life just fits.

Podcast: Become Your Own Boss With A Book

Podcast: Become Your Own Boss With A Book – (37 mins) Listen to  my interview with Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn. This podcast is relevant to you if you are thinking of transitioning from full time employment to self employment or if you have your own business. I learnt so much from interviewing Joanna. …

Start Your Own Business. But First, Get Clear On Your Intent.

During the Christmas break, I caught up with an old friend of mine from my corporate days in Hong Kong. Over a drink at one of Melbourne’s lovely hotels, he said, “I couldn’t do what you did”.  He was referring to how I left my corporate career to start my own business in a city…

Conducting Your End-of-Year Review

Wow! We’ve almost come to the end of year. It seems like it was only a few months ago that we were heralding in 2010.  Now it’s just a few weeks before we’ll be ushering in 2011. If you read the papers or watch the news, you won’t get away from compilations of “The Year…